Transport Manager - Compliance

DPD Group UK; Hinckley; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000

Job description

Company Description

• Contract Type: Permanent / 40 Hours Per Week
• Base Location: Hinckley and Oldbury
• Hours of Work: 14:00 - 22:30.

Join us on our journey as we aim to be the UK’s most sustainable delivery company, whilst ensuring our customers continue to receive a world-class service. You will be in a busy and fast-paced business, with a turnover of over £2 billion, that can offer you great benefits and plenty of opportunities to progress your career.

DPD are passionate about creating an environment that is open, ethical, inclusive, and socially responsible.

Along with job security, the tools to do the job, and a competitive salary, you’ll receive fantastic benefits starting on day one, including never working on your birthday ever again!

DPD is a Valuable 500 company and a Disability Confident Employer.

Job Description

In this role, your key responsibility will be to maintain and consistently improve all areas of Transport compliance within the Transport department. This means ensuring the department is adhering to both legal and company procedural requirements and ensuring that any non-compliances are identified, fully investigated, with remedial action put into place.

You will be required to lead and motivate the Transport Compliance teams across multiple locations to ensure all KPIs are met in assisting the department to function legally and safely whilst maintaining ER accreditation.

Key Tasks/Areas of Responsibility:

• Analysing data and trends to proactively identify possible risks within the driver force, vehicle maintenance, and Transport compliance processes to allow for effective improvements to be implemented.

• Using the available data and initiative to implement changes in order to reduce the number of compliance issues the department faces and drive compliance.

• Consistently reviewing Transport Compliance processes to ensure they are compliant with legal and company requirements, then amending and/or introducing new processes as required along with any project work required to assist this.

• Working closely with all Transport Operational teams, the Transport Manager, and Departmental Senior Managers to ensure agreed processes and actions are completed, as well as communicating any legal or company compliance changes, illustrating impacts, and presenting proposed actions.

• Training staff within the Transport department to ensure they have sufficient knowledge to monitor and ensure compliance levels are maintained locally.

• Managing the Compliance team to ensure that we remain legally compliant whilst regularly reviewing the team's output to implement improvements in processes and drive compliance.

• Ensuring that Transport Compliance rating audit submissions are investigated and all relevant evidence supplied within timeframes.

• Challenging current processes with a view to seek improvements and reduction in compliance issues.

Qualifications

What we are looking for:

• You must hold a full International CPC and be able to demonstrate an excellent understanding of transport compliance.

• You will have demonstrable experience of managing compliance over multiple locations; therefore, experience and knowledge of a large transport operation would be preferable.

• A high standard of computer literacy with a thorough knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite.

• The ability to analyse, interpret data and trends along with the ability to drive change to improve workflows.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively at all levels.

• Be able to work successfully using a high level of initiative.

• Demonstrate the core DPD DNA values of Passion, Respect, Honesty, Flexibility, Caring, and Accountability.

Additional Information

About our Benefits

We recognise that our people are at the heart of our business; without them, we wouldn’t be able to deliver our award-winning service to millions of customers across the country each day. It’s important to us that we demonstrate our recognition of you in providing you with more than just a salary and job stability. To name but a few:

• Holiday trading
• Enhanced maternity and paternity package
• Free life assurance of 4 x salary on joining the pension scheme
• Health Kiosks visiting every location
• Vitality at Work
• Free On-Site Parking
• Discounted shopping from 100’s of retailers including up to 5% off supermarket shopping
• Milestone Days off to celebrate with your family and friends
• For employees who regularly use a screen as part of their job, we offer free eye tests and support with the cost of glasses.

Joining DPD can lead to not just a stable job but also a career. DPD prides itself on recognising and developing talent alongside a desire to promote from within. As a continually growing and evolving organisation, we are proud to offer a great number of development and promotion opportunities.

If you identify with our aims and values and can help us deliver our customers' promises, then this is the job for you! Apply today.